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A -- DEVELOP A POWDER SIMULATION AND A STANDALONE VISUALISATION PROGRAM SOL 53SBNB967078 DUE 070999 POC Brenda K. Lee (301) 975-6394 WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Oxford Cryosystems, 3 Blenheim Office Park, Lower Road, Long Hanborough Oxford OX8 8LN UK to develop a Powder Simulation extension to be Crystallographica Class Library that allows calculation and graphing of powder diffraction patterns. The contractor shall provide the following: 1) a standalone version of the Powder Simulation extension; 2) all files and DLL to incorporate powder simulation into the Visualisation program; 3) accompanying technical documentation; 4) license to redistribute the Oxford Cryosystems supplied software; and 5) Powder Simulation source code. Also the contractor shall develop a standalone Visualisation Program to visualize crystal structures in the inorganic Crystal Structure Database(ICSD). The contractor shall provide the following: 1) Visualisation Program for implementation into NIST's products; 2) License to redistribute the Visualisation Program executable and Crystallographica Class Library dynamic link libraries; 3) DLLs, library files and header files required to incorporate Crystallographica Class Library into the Visualisation Program; 4) Sealed copy of the Crystallographica Class Library source code. Oxford Cryosystems is the only source who is uniquely qualified to produce a Visualisation Program to read crystal structures from the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database and to produce a Powder Simulation extension to the Crystallographica Class Library. This extension will allow the calculation and graphing of powder diffraction patterns. The contractor shall provide a User's Guides in Microsoft Word or other NIST-acceptable formats. The contractor shall provide to the Government a CD-ROM containing the final version of the Visualisation Program and Crystallographica Class Library within 3 month after contract award and shall be delivered FOB Destination Gaithersburg, MD. The contractor shall provide fixes for bugs resulting from coding errors in the Cryostallographica Class Library for a period of five years from final delivery of the deliverables specified herein. The contractor shall provide requested recompilations of the Crystallograohica Class Library using other development tools or other processors for a period of 5 years from final delivery of the deliverables specified herein. Requests for a copy of a solicitation package will be disregarded. No solicitation package will be issued. The Government will verbally request a written quotation from Oxford Cryosystems. The Contractor must be able to meet all the requirements stated herein. The anticipated award date of the contract is on or around July 16, 1999. In accordance with FAR 5.207(e)(3), Numbered Note 22, DOES NOT APPLY. Numbered Note 26 applies. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact Brenda Lee at the telephone number identified above. Posted 06/25/99 (W-SN347286). (0176)

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